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Integration and measures on the space of countable labelled graphs

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2015-06-05 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper we develop a rigorous foundation for the study of integration and measures on the space G(V)\mathscr{G}(V) of all graphs defined on a countable labelled vertex set VV. We first study several interrelated σ\sigma-algebras and a large family of probability measures on graph space. We then focus on a "dyadic" Hamming distance function ψ,2\left\| \cdot \right\|_{\psi,2}, which was very useful in the study of differentiation on G(V)\mathscr{G}(V). The function ψ,2\left\| \cdot \right\|_{\psi,2} is shown to be a Haar measure-preserving bijection from the subset of infinite graphs to the circle (with the Haar/Lebesgue measure), thereby naturally identifying the two spaces. As a consequence, we establish a "change of variables" formula that enables the transfer of the Riemann-Lebesgue theory on R\mathbb{R} to graph space G(V)\mathscr{G}(V). This also complements previous work in which a theory of Newton-Leibnitz differentiation was transferred from the real line to G(V)\mathscr{G}(V) for countable VV. Finally, we identify the Pontryagin dual of G(V)\mathscr{G}(V), and characterize the positive definite functions on G(V)\mathscr{G}(V).

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@article{arxiv.1506.01439,
  title  = {Integration and measures on the space of countable labelled graphs},
  author = {Apoorva Khare and Bala Rajaratnam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01439},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, LaTeX